replicative
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of replicative
Example Sentences
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By attacking the virus at different stages of its replicative cycle, it is much more difficult for the virus to develop resistance to multiple drugs at the same time.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Our experiments elucidate the mechanism of eukaryotic replicative helicase activation, which we propose provides a fail-safe mechanism for bidirectional replisome establishment.
From Nature • Feb. 27, 2018
It is a replicative vaccine; the virus in it generates a low-grade infection that provokes the immune system to pump out antibodies against Ebola.
From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2014
The cytotoxic T cell response, though, is key, as it eventually overwhelms the virus and kills infected cells before the virus can complete its replicative cycle.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
In the new tradition of memetics, work would be described as a replicative complex unit, probably a meta-meme.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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